ur-mind
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.90 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The primitive, subconscious, latent, or unconscious mind; instinct.
Example Sentences
- "[…] whose deification of personal vision, whose wildly romantic glorification of the inner light, first supplied Western thought with an imposing conceptual apparatus by which to justify its habitual excursions into the dark corners of the ur-mind."
- "[…] the non-specific 'deep structure', a deep structure that presumably lies so far down in the ur-mind as to realize itself again and again in all forms of cultural activity, basket-making no less than myth-making, cooking no less than love-making."
- "From the muse, from god, from literature itself, the subconscious mind, the Ur-mind, some kind of Jungian other, from the reptilian brain. Who knows? I ride horses a lot, and there's a lot that you feel coming from the horse when you're riding it."
- "This Ur-mind also contains information about the future, information available to everyone — but particularly the novelist."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ur
Inflected Forms
ur-minds (plural)
ur mind (alternative)